‘John Cage picking mushrooms in the woods’ and ‘John Cage sitting at a table looking at mushrooms,’ William Gedney Photographs and Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.   In the words of avant garde musician and avid mushroom hunter John Cage, “much can be learned about music by devoting oneself […]

When people move, their food moves with them. In the last thirty years there has been a wave of internationalism taking over restaurant kitchens as the world becomes more globalized. But when people move they are doing more than transporting their own traditions to a new location. They open a dialogue between their relatives and […]

Decades before oversized balloons of Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse filled American skies during  commercially-sponsored Thanksgiving day parades, a very different object was flown–the black flag of the International Working People’s Association (IWPA). While many Americans celebrated the holiday by giving thanks and partaking in the now-traditional turkey dinner, the anarchist organization protested turn-of-the-century […]

This article features the research of Dr. Sabine Hake Professor, Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. You’re a member of the working class living in a cramped urban space with at least a few other people. You’re constantly concerned about money. […]